The practice of mindfulness transforms the mind from a place of suffering into an instrument of enlightenment.

Meditation is not about achieving anything. It's about letting go of everything.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

Compassion is not just about being kind to others. It's about being kind to ourselves as well.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Our task is not to seek for love but to find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

Short moments, many times. That is the essence of meditation practice.

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

Our basic nature is pure awareness that simply cognizes experience. Everything else is temporary and adventitious.

True freedom is not the absence of commitment but the presence of choice.

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

Panic, anxiety, and stress are not obstacles to the practice. They are the path to wisdom and compassion.

The everyday practice is simply to develop complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions.

Sticking with uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—this is the spiritual path.

When we recognize that our thoughts are just thoughts, we can choose whether or not to follow them.

True peace is found not in the absence of experience but in the clear seeing of all experience.

The Noble Eightfold Path is a path of training: training in ethical conduct, training in mental discipline, and training in wisdom.

Just as the wise do not take a mirage to be water, nor an echo to be a voice, so the enlightened do not take the world to be real.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

When one sees with wisdom that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, one is liberated from suffering.

The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem.

Every moment of confusion is also a moment of wisdom, if we can learn to recognize it.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

We need the courage to learn from our experience and the wisdom to be willing to change and grow.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

The Buddha's teaching is not about belief but about investigation, not about accepting but about examining.

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.

Nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change. Being is always becoming.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.